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The Utes Must Go: American Expansion and the Removal of a People. By Peter Decker. (Golden, CO: Fulcrum Publishing, 2004. xix + 325 pp. Illustrations, map, notes, index. $28.95, cloth; $17.95, paper.)

      Peter Decker came to this topic the way many historians become interested in Indians—through a personal experience with tribal culture. Decker found an arrowhead on his ranch in Colorado and set out to explain how the Utes lost the land he had come to own. In crisp prose, he accomplishes this goal, bringing vividly to life the historical characters and events surrounding the 1880 massacre in which Indian Agent Nathan Meeker was killed, and the subsequent forced removal of the northern bands of Ute Indians from Colorado to Utah. . . .

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